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:: Perhaps, indeed. (I'm not quite sure that my amish relatives would really appreciate that line of thinking, but I can certainly see its validity.) Still, from a personal contribution point of view, I feel I should be capable of doing a lot more than what I have (if only I could better identify a reasonable set of priorities and motivations for myself which fit the fragmented aspects of society which I happen to admire). --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 20:18, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
:Wow that's a pretty wide topic you're stepping in here. Since you're mentioning the Amish, it seems that you're willing to go as far as questioning the benefits of technology, not just computers, for society. If we were to have this debate, we'd be aligning an endless list of pros and cons (some of them have already started to be listed above) and most people nowadays would conclude that the list of pros overwhelms the list of cons. I'm not even willing to go this road: I'm not learning a computer language because I think it makes the world better. I'm doing it because it's fun, because it's interesting and because when I write a nice program (which is sadly quite rare), it's gratifying. I'm personally not at all attracted to a simpler, agrarian way of life, mostly because I tend to think it would be ''dull''. I may be wrong, which would be tragic, but that's how I see it and there are very little reasonable ways for me to find out anyway. I'm pretty sure when someone plays angry bird on his smartphone or when a teenage girl saves a 1GB high-definition recording of Justin Bieber concert on her hard drive, there are good reasons to believe this is a waste of resources. But that will always be a subjective point of view because we as humans do enjoy a wide variety of things and certainly not all of them are related to food and clothes.--[[User:Grondilu|Grondilu]] ([[User talk:Grondilu|talk]]) 20:54, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
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